Attended and participated in the 2005 MESA Conference, Washington D.C. November 2005. Presented a paper entitled: “Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and the Role of the Modern Arab Poet.”

“Total Immersion Curriculum for the Advanced Levels in Arabic” with Foazi El-Barouki, DLI. A workshop presented at the North East Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. NYC, April 2005.

Invited to present a paper and participate in the “Oxford Round Table” discussion of a special session entitled “Global Security in the 21st Century” at Lincoln College, in the University of Oxford, England, 2006.

Invited to give a presentation and participate in the Second International Conference on Kahlil Gibran. April 2006. University of Maryland, College Park.

Attended and participated in the 2004 MESA conference, San Francisco, November 2004. Presented a paper entitled, “Beirut ’75 by Ghada al-Samman: An Autobiographical

Interpretation.” Also chaired a panel, “Dynamics of Culture in the Gulf Arab States: Part II.” And represented MEALAC at the meeting of the Center for Arab Study Abroad (CASA).

Attended the “Seventeenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics,” sponsored by the

Arabic Linguistics Society (ALS), the University of Oklahoma, March 2004

Attended ACTFL, Pennsylvania, 2003.

Attended AATA, Pennsylvania, 2003.

Attended "Foreign Languages Collaborations and the Web." Conference of the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning. The University of Pennsylvania, 2002.

Invited to present a paper on the contemporary Lebanese/Arab poet, Khalil Hawi, at the Arabic Literature Seminar held in conjunction with the ACLA annual convention, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2002.

Invited to present a paper and participate in the open discussion at the Conference of L' Academie Culturelle Arabe in Amman, Jordan, December 2002.

Attended and read a paper at the First International Conference on Kahlil Gibran at the University of Maryland, 1999.